Report: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and three other IS commanders poisoned by assassin

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been hurt before in US air strikes. Picture: SuppliedSource:AAP

ISLAMIC State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is at death’s door after being poisoned by a mystery assassin in Iraq, it has been reported.

Three other senior jihadis were also afflicted by the toxin in Al-Ba’aj, southwest of Mosul — Islamic State’s biggest city in Iraq, The Sun reports. The four have reportedly been rushed for treatment at a secret location.

FARS, an Iranian news agency, say that IS is now arresting several suspects to find out who has struck a blow at the terror group’s self-proclaimed ‘Caliph’.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi talking to children at a mosque in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied

The evil Iraqi cleric is known to have been personally responsible the rape and torture of US aid worker Kayla Mueller. He forced the 26-year-old to marry him, before repeatedly raping her.

Mueller was killed during a Jordanian air strike on IS in February last year.

The United States has a $12 million price on Baghdadi’s head.

He was previously held by US forces in the city of Fallujah in 2004 during their invasion of the country.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and three other ISIL commanders were poisoned by unknown individuals in Nineveh Province in Iraq.

Baghdadi is known to have been personally responsible the rape and torture of US aid worker Kayla Mueller. Picture: US ABC NewsSource:Supplied

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Baghdadi was released within six months and would go on to be declared the leader of IS — then known as al-Qaeda in Iraq — in 2010.

If the reports are true, it would not be the first time al-Baghdadi has been injured. In 2015 he was severely hurt in a US air strike in Syria.

In June of this year, rumours surfaced that he was killed by a US air strike in IS ‘capital’ Raqqa, but they were later found to be false.